BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbor's aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border ...
Colombia's top cop: Escobar's son directly involved in drug lord's crimes Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia captured four members of the Venezuelan National Guard on Colombian soil and said on Saturday it would send them home in a gesture aimed at lowering diplomatic tensions between the neighboring countries. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week ...
Twenty months after Colombian forces bombed a guerrilla encampment in Ecuador bringing the two countries to the verge of war, both capitals on Friday said they restored diplomatic ties. The governments announced the exchange of embassy envoys ahead of a self-imposed November ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia brought what it called threats of war from neighboring Venezuela to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday after Hugo Chavez, leader of the neighboring country, told his army to get ready to fight. For months Chavez has said ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps. But 16 years ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps. But 16 ...
Colombia reports seizure of $19 million in counterfeit US currency in 2009; big rise from 2008 Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year. A statement from ...
The United States on Tuesday called on Colombia and Venezuela to talk out their differences, before the growing tension over a US-Colombian military base deal gets out of hand. "We certainly don't think this is about the US," State Department spokesman Philip ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Nine Colombian soldiers were killed when their post was attacked by Marxist FARC guerrillas in a southwestern part of the country used as a cocaine smuggling corridor by the rebels, officials said on Tuesday. The attack by about 200 ...
Clergy in the crossfire: Mexico's bishops seek answers to drug violence at home, from abroad Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it imposed sanctions on 14 people and 25 companies in Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands that it said supported the financial network of former bosses of Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel. The Treasury ...
